From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:25:22 GMT
Subject: Re: git command to read
Message-ID: <20081021112521.GC17363@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <18685.47909.354146.487700@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:21:09PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:

> Is there a command in git at the moment that will read commit IDs on
> standard input and print the contents of each commit on standard
> output (without waiting for EOF on stdin)?

How about:

  git cat-file --batch

?

Unfortunately it just dumps the raw commit information instead of
allowing the usual formatting, but perhaps that is sufficient (you asked
for "contents").

-Peff